5 (bus driver forces boy to urinate in front of
other kids and molests him while the others watch)

8 (acquaintance of man with disabilities murders
him in his own residence)

9 (restraint of children in school is rampant and
unrestrained...harms the children, terrified and becoming suicidal)

10 (sexual molestation by MRI operator)

15 (child with autism starved to death by cousin,
care-giver article emphasizes difficulty of caregiving, not child's
needs)

36 (worker with disabilities tortured by owner's
brother for years, too scared to say anything)

Abuse/Crime related:

1. “Alabama School 'Rape-Bait' Case Involving
14-Year-Old Special Needs Girl to Be Heard in Court” --- It's been
five years since a 14-year-old Alabama girl with special needs said
she was persuaded by a teacher's aide to act as bait to ... --- Q13
FOX --- February 13, 2015 (ALABAMA)
http://is.gd/e7aQgj

2. “Man's Toe Amputated After Reports of
Serious Neglect at Assisted Living Facility The Lodge” --- New
allegations of neglect surface after a resident at The Lodge at 14th
... Mark Dallas is disabled and considered a vulnerable adult. ---
ABC15 Arizona --- February 12, 2015 (ARIZONA)
http://is.gd/aBatj8

3. “Autism Teacher Protests Removal for
Hugging” --- Leo Bennett-Cauchon said he was just doing what was best
for a severely autistic 8-year old when he made contact with the child
in early February. --- USA TODAY --- February 18, 2015 (CALIFORNIA)
http://is.gd/xLBuAr

4. “3 Men Accused of Molestation in Child Porn
Case” --- Yoder, the suspect who had adopted two boys, is a teaching
assistant at Desert Hot Springs High School and works with special
education students. --- Press-Enterprise --- February 17, 2015
(CALIFORNIA)
http://is.gd/NViH80

5. “Complaint: Special Needs Student Forced to
Urinate on School Bus by Driver” --- The San Diego Unified School
District and a bus driver will face trial in a civil complaint filed
by the family of a special needs child who ... --- 10News --- February
13, 2015 (CALIFORNIA)
http://is.gd/bGypt3

6. “Disabled Woman's Ordeal Changes Shopping
Center Policy” --- A moviegoer disabled by multiple sclerosis found
herself stranded on a second floor mall patio after a late night show
when security shut down the ... --- NBC 7 San Diego --- February 14,
2015 (CALIFORNIA)
http://is.gd/MQWlpS

7. “Fort Carson Hospital Reforms Enacted After
Investigation into Care of Mental Health Patient” --- The 775-page
report cleared the hospital off allegations that psychiatrists and
therapists worked to push mentally-ill soldiers out of the Army ...
--- Colorado Springs Gazette --- February 15, 2015 (COLORADO)
http://is.gd/MiaO4J

8. “One of Two Teens Charged in Beating Death
of Disabled Man in Boulder Pleads Guilty” --- Austin Holford, who was
charged along with a friend in the beating death of a developmentally
disabled Boulder man, pleaded ... --- FOX31 Denver --- February 13,
2015 (COLORADO)
http://is.gd/6McB3P

9. “Connecticut School Restrained One Child 700
Times in One Year” --- In Connecticut, hundreds of children were left
injured after schools' ... more than 90,000 instances of restraint and
seclusion in public schools and ... --- Newsweek --- February 13,
2015 (CONNECTICUT)
http://is.gd/KiLzXc

10. “UConn Lab Manager Convicted of Sex
Assaulting Disabled Person” --- A 51-year-old lab manager at the
University of Connecticut has been convicted on charges of sexually
assaulting a disabled person, according to the ... --- NBC Connecticut
--- February 13, 2015 (CONNECTICUT)
http://is.gd/iykc5M

12. “Chief Said Officers Who Killed Mentally
Ill Man ‘Did Best They Could’ ” --- Miami Gardens police officers
Peter Ehrlich and Eddo Trimino fired their Tasers at Lavall Hall after
he struck them with the metal end of a broomstick. --- MiamiHerald.com
--- February 17, 2015 (FLORIDA)
http://is.gd/Fck4xM

13. “Jurors to Decide Fate of South Florida
Psychiatrist, Others in Medicare Fraud Trial” --- Barry Kaplowitz was
a psychiatrist with a “robotic” signature who signed off on thousands
of bogus treatments at a Hollywood psychiatric facility that ... ---
MiamiHerald.com --- February 16, 2015 (FLORIDA)
http://is.gd/fC7PPp

14. “Cop Who Killed Mentally Ill Man May Not
Have Had Proper Training” --- Local 10 News has learned the Miami
Gardens who shot and killed a mentally disabled man may not have been
properly trained on how to deal with ... --- Local 10 --- February 16,
2015 (FLORIDA)
http://is.gd/UIcvZL

15. “Caretaker Accused in Autistic Girl's Death
Says She'd Never Hurt Her” --- Audain was autistic, could not speak
and suffered from a debilitating illness. After her mother died,
Tamiyah was placed in Patterson's care. --- CBS Local --- February 13,
2015 (FLORIDA)
http://is.gd/I6Ky4y

16. “2 Arrested after Wheelchair-bound Man
Robbed” --- Kerrigan said he was sitting in his wheelchair outside the
Kwik Stop convenience store at 4701 Broadway Avenue in West Palm Beach
when one of ... --- WPBF West Palm Beach --- February 13, 2015
(FLORIDA)
http://is.gd/LPlm0i

17. “Elgin School Officials Investigate
Substitute Teacher on Bullying Allegations” --- Horrified – that's the
best way to describe how the family of one special-needs student is
feeling after a substitute teacher allegedly joined in on ... --- CBS
Local --- February 13, 2015 (ILLINOIS)
http://is.gd/HMkeOd

19. “Plea in Sex Crime Ends in Man's Release”
--- Less than a month after a judge didn't accept the plea of a
Valparaiso man to a sex crime involving a mentally impaired woman,
he's being released ... --- Chicago Tribune --- February 17, 2015
(ILLINOIS)
http://is.gd/JaZfi9

21. “LifeLine Sued over Allegations of Neglect
at Group Home” --- A guardian for a disabled foster child who was
injured at a troubled group home last year has sued the state
contractor that ran the facility and the ... --- Baltimore Sun ---
February 14, 2015 (MARYLAND)
http://is.gd/8KjUyU

22. “Caseworkers Swipe $3K from Mentally Ill
Homeless Man, Police Say” --- The man contacted his local bank branch
and learned the check was made out to Troy Cowan, his Takoma Park
group home manager. --- WJLA --- February 13, 2015 (MARYLAND)
http://is.gd/6Ufceg

23. “MIT, Harvard Sued over Lack of Closed
Captioning for Online Courses” --- Christine Griffin, executive
director of the Disability Law Center in Boston, said she hoped that
would be the case. "Our hope is that this lawsuit will ... ---
Huffington Post --- February 13, 2015 (MASSACHUSETTS)
http://is.gd/OrstDd

24. “Minnetonka Parents Say Teacher Who Bit
Special Needs Student Should Be Disciplined” --- They say Nick's
special education teacher at Minnetonka High School was with their son
and his classmates at the Williston Center pool that day. --- FOX 9
News --- February 14, 2015 (MINNESOTA)
http://is.gd/FLRMYL

27. “Mentally Ill Since 6, Inmate in Solitary
Confinement Goes Untreated” --- In many ways, Seaton is typical of the
inmates who are sent to solitary confinement: mentally ill, unable to
conform to prison rules and apt to remain in ... --- Omaha
World-Herald --- February 15, 2015 (NEBRASKA)
http://is.gd/ubsOOI

28. “Queens Teacher to Be Fired After Striking
Special Needs Boy” --- Perry was heard on tape assaulting a special
needs student at P.S. 118 in St. Albans. Lawyers for the alleged
victim unveiled the tape as another ... --- New York Daily News ---
February 18, 2015 (NEW YORK)
http://is.gd/iXQlzv

29. “Worker Charged with Hurting Man with
Disabilities” --- An employee at the Sunmount Office for People With
Developmental Disabilities has been charged with injuring a client.
--- Plattsburgh Press Republican --- February 18, 2015 (NEW YORK)
http://is.gd/4Hx7Ea

30. “Saratoga County Woman Accused of Stealing
from a Developmental Disability Home” --- Sheriff's investigators say
they were contacted by the Capital District Developmental Disabilities
State Operations Offices in Clifton Park. --- WNYT --- February 12,
2015 (NEW YORK)
http://is.gd/6flRLS

31. “Rockland Principal Out After Audio
Recording of Her Berating Students” --- ... is no longer in the
building and that the Hilltop School for special needs children in
Haverstraw is currently being run by two assistant principals. ---
WABC-TV --- February 13, 2015 (NEW YORK)
http://is.gd/luMrMf

32. “Aide Allegedly Slapped Person with Special
Needs” --- The report says a bus aide slapped a 23-year-old woman
during a ride to a group home in Sanborn serviced by Opportunities
Unlimited. “Our primary ... --- WKBW-TV --- February 13, 2015 (NEW
YORK)
http://is.gd/6ps1d0

34. “Portland Expels, Suspends Fewer Students,
but Still Disciplines African American Students at Higher ...” ---
Portland Public Schools was fined in October for disciplining African
American special education students at higher rates, leading to
additional training ... --- OregonLive.com --- February 16, 2015
(OREGON)
http://is.gd/oWcRuh

35. “Jury Deliberating in Trial of Man Accused
of Killing Another for Headphones” --- Christian Massey, a
special-needs man who had graduated from Marple Newtown High, had just
bought his $300 Beats by Dr. Dre headphones the ... --- Philly.com ---
February 15, 2015 (PENNSYLVANIA)
http://is.gd/PGDBF2

37. “Suit: Disabled Boy Arrested, Put in
'Straight Jacket Chair' ” --- He was enrolled in Beech Elementary
School's special education program until school officials recommended
in September 2013 that he attend R.T. ... --- The Tennessean ---
February 13, 2015 (TENNESSEE)
http://is.gd/nBUA3B

38. “Autistic Man Detained by Neighbor after
Entering His Home Dies of Injury” --- Autism is a difficult challenge,
and he lived through many difficulties in his life. It is hard to have
lost him under these circumstances. We have faith ... --- Deseret News
--- February 13, 2015 (UTAH)
http://is.gd/n7Pc0w

39. “6-Year-Old in Wheelchair Who Was Abused
Attends Hearing for New Law” --- Aiden's Law strengthens state law to
ensure that cases of suspected child abuse are immediately reviewed
when a social worker decides not to ... --- KIRO Seattle --- February
17, 2015 (WASHINGTON)
http://is.gd/yV7JDy

40. “Bush-linked Company Blocked Government
Contract for Blind, Disabled” --- A company linked to Jeb Bush blocked
a group serving the blind and disabled from landing a government
contract, a revelation ... --- CNN --- February 12, 2015 (WASHINGTON,
D.C.)
http://is.gd/Tdq8JL

41. “2011 Sex Assault of Group Home Resident
Nets Six Year Prison Term” --- A former group home employee who
sexually assaulted a developmentally disabled woman he assisted at a
group home was sentenced to six years ... --- Green Bay Press Gazette
--- February 16, 2015 (WISCONSIN)
http://is.gd/6Bhjoc

43. “California's Wage Theft Problem” ---
Priscilla Soriano worked 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week as a
caregiver at a residential home for mentally ill clients in San Jose,
but never got ... --- NBC Bay Area --- February 13, 2015
(CALIFORNIA)
http://is.gd/cMFxZR

45. “Boston College under Investigation over
Access for Disabled” --- Boston College has become more difficult to
navigate for people with disabilities in recent years, according to
former and current students whose ... --- ABC News --- February 18,
2015 (MASSACHUSETTS)
http://is.gd/lR44s5

46. “Money Meant for Disabled Minnesotans Goes
Unspent” --- County governments are failing to spend millions of
dollars that have been set aside for providing services and therapy to
... --- KTTC --- February 15, 2015 (MINNESOTA)
http://is.gd/95AS1I

47. “Minnesota Has Closed 10 of 11 State Mental
Hospitals” --- At the same time, the state has aggressively pursued
other methods of helping people with mental illness, such as providing
crisis services in ... --- DesMoinesRegister.com --- February 14,
2015 (MINNESOTA)
http://is.gd/J49QV1

49. “Need for Mental Health Reform: 'It's Just
Heartbreaking' ” --- “There's got to be in-between stuff, because
Ancora is an acute care adult psychiatric hospital. Most of what it
does is giving people medication and ... --- Vineland Daily Journal
--- February 16, 2015 (NEW JERSEY)
http://is.gd/1e07hU

50. “The Record: Closed Developmental Centers”
--- The state’s closing of the two North Jersey facilities for people
with developmental disabilities was rushed by the Christie
administration. While the ... --- NorthJersey.com --- February 15,
2015 (NEW JERSEY)
http://is.gd/DxRUmZ

52. “Seclusion, Restraint at Schools Debated”
--- Yet he's bounced through a series of different schools where he's
continued to be physically restrained during his outbursts and taken
to quiet rooms, ... --- Rochester Democrat and Chronicle --- February
15, 2015 (NEW YORK)
http://is.gd/285k41

53. “Bus Aide under Investigation for Slapping
Developmentally Disabled Woman” --- The Niagara County Sheriff's
Office is among the agencies investigating a report of a
developmentally disabled woman being slapped twice by a ... ---
Niagara Gazette --- February 12, 2015 (NEW YORK)
http://is.gd/gcWS05

54. “Frustrated Families Cope with Closing of
Youngstown Developmental Center” --- Ferry, of Kent, and Mosco, of
Struthers, each have family members who live at the Youngstown
Developmental Center, but are faced - again - with ... --- Youngstown
Vindicator --- February 15, 2015 (OHIO)
http://is.gd/BmhM2G

55. “Bend Police Seeing More Cases Involving
Suspected Mental Illness” --- In the past 10 years, the number of
cases filed annually by the Bend Police Department involving people
believed to be mentally ill has grown from ... --- Bend Bulletin ---
February 16, 2015 (OREGON)
http://is.gd/MEEfKb

56. “Midland Doesn't Have Sufficient Services
for Special-Needs Kids” --- Sadly, there are not enough mental health
services for our children in the Permian Basin area. Sadder yet, is
the reality that we even need these ... --- Midland Reporter-Telegram
--- February 17, 2015 (TEXAS)
http://is.gd/eecfa3

Proposed Legislation and New Laws

57. “So Far, No Compelled Psychiatric Treatment
under Laura's Law in OC” --- Also, one of the following: The person,
within the last 36 months, has required two psychiatric
hospitalizations or placement in a correctional facility ... ---
OCRegister --- February 14, 2015 (CALIFORNIA)
http://is.gd/p0ZOMf

59. “Special Ed Teacher Aides Should Have
Training: Our View” --- Senate Bill 132 says teacher aides should have
proper training if they work with kids with special needs. It sounds
simple and it deserves support, but ... --- Reno Gazette Journal ---
February 18, 2015 (NEVADA)
http://is.gd/2CdaPJ

60. “Bill to Track Former Developmental Center
Residents Advances” --- The Senate Budget Committee this week passed a
bill aimed at tracking the progress of former state developmental
center residents who have been ... --- Daily Record --- February 12,
2015 (NEW JERSEY)
http://is.gd/OuwjkR

61. “House OKs Bill to Aid the Severely
Disabled” --- Children who are severely disabled or have "complex
medical conditions" would receive more financial support from the
state under legislation that ... --- Salt Lake Tribune --- February
17, 2015 (UTAH)
http://is.gd/PDYd6z

62. “Tales of Trauma in School 'Seclusion
Rooms' Draw Attention of Legislators” --- Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat,
is expected to soon sign the bill into law, making the state the 33rd
to govern the use of seclusion and restraint in schools ... ---
Tribune-Review --- February 15, 2015 (VIRGINIA)
http://is.gd/uAaoua

63. “Va. House Passes Bill Regulating
Seclusion, Restraint in Public Schools” --- The Virginia House of
Delegates on Friday passed, 96 to 0, a bill that would regulate the
seclusion and restraint of public school children ... --- Washington
Post --- February 13, 2015 (VIRGINIA)
http://is.gd/AbKJSR

64. “Bills Would Let Doctors Help Terminally
Ill Patients End Their Lives” --- Joe Young, executive director of the
civil- and legal-rights advocacy group Disability Rights New Jersey,
which opposes the legislation, said the New ... --- Wall Street
Journal --- February 16, 2015 (U.S. – NATIONAL)
http://is.gd/TBtbgD

International Articles

65. “Disabled Youth Living in Aged-Care Homes”
--- About 520 young West Australians with disabilities - some as young
as 18 - are living in aged-care homes because of a shortage of
dedicated housing ... --- The West Australian --- February 18, 2015
(AUSTRALIA)
http://is.gd/wvXS5X

66. “Man Jailed for Assaulting, Confining
Disabled Partner to Her Home in Canberra” --- A 28-year-old Canberra
man has been sentenced to 22 months in jail for assaulting and
confining his disabled partner to her home. Stephen East was ... ---
ABC Online --- February 16, 2015 (AUSTRALIA)
http://is.gd/JhbRsk

67. “Teacher Suspended for 'Bullying'
Overweight Special Needs Student” --- A special needs student has
filmed a teacher bullying him along with students after a classmate
drew a crude picture of him on the ... --- 9news.com.au --- February
16, 2015 (AUSTRALIA)
http://is.gd/n7uXAo

68. “Budget Cuts Could Silence Voices for the
Disabled” --- Michael Sullivan, chairman of the NSW Council for
Intellectual Disability and board member of national advocacy group
Our Voice. --- The Age --- February 15, 2015 (AUSTRALIA)
http://is.gd/qufb3U

69. “Autism Study Finds No Two Cases Are the
Same, Redefining Diagnosis” --- New Canadian research suggests kids
with autism are as unique as snowflakes. Even in families where more
than one sibling is autistic, the ... --- CBC.ca --- February 17,
2015 (CANADA)
http://is.gd/GfgCmv

70. “Police Identify Disabled Man Who Died Face
Down in Bitter Cold” --- An Etobicoke man is dead after being found
without vital signs in the bitter cold in front of his home Sunday
morning, his empty wheelchair sitting nearby. --- Hamilton Spectator
--- February 16, 2015 (CANADA)
http://is.gd/MRjp08

71. “Difficult Struggle to Find Group Homes for
People with Disabilities” --- For parents of children with special
needs that goal is much harder to achieve, in part because there are
long waiting lists for government-funded ... --- CTV News --- February
13, 2015 (CANADA)
http://is.gd/aqLMQw

72. “Berlin Film Looks at Mentally Impaired
Woman Awakening to Sex” --- "Is a young woman with mental impairment
allowed to have a child?" Werenfels said at a news conference. "People
with a disability have the same ... --- Reuters --- February 12, 2015
(GERMANY)
http://is.gd/xFySAx

73. “The Many Rohtaks that Go Unreported” --- A
random search for cases of sexual abuse of the disabled throws up an
alarming number of results. A study released last year by Human Rights
... --- Times of India --- February 15, 2015 (INDIA)
http://is.gd/izuQzb

74. “Many Services Affordable Only for Wealthy
Disabled” --- Plaza Indonesia has restrooms for the disabled in its
lobby basement floor as well as its third, fourth and fifth floors.
One visitor, Josephine Lin, said ... --- Jakarta Post --- February 16,
2015 (INDONESIA)
http://is.gd/SNGVdf

75. “Mother Escapes Jail After Assaulting
Autistic Son” --- It was revealed in court that as well as suffering
from autism her son is almost ... Judge Bagnall had stressed: “This is
a 17-year-old boy who is autistic. --- Belfast Newsletter --- February
17, 2015 (IRELAND)
http://is.gd/nscvR8

76. “Ordeal of Children Placed in Care:
Disabled Foster Kids 'Abused and Locked Under the Stairwell' ” ---
Health bosses have been accused of failing to probe fully allegations
of sexual and physical abuse of up to 40 children at a foster home,
the Irish ... --- Irish Mirror --- February 15, 2015 (IRELAND)
http://is.gd/EnBlJt

77. “In Japan, Women Amputees Step out of the
Shadows” --- The stigma of amputation in a country that views
disability as something to be pitied added to her misery. But then the
Japanese office worker met ... --- Reuters --- February 17, 2015
(JAPAN)
http://is.gd/N6vku2

78. “Nurse May Lose Licence over Sex with
Mentally Ill Woman” --- A forensic mental health nurse who had sex
with a recent patient after giving her wine quit his district health
board job as soon as he was outed. --- New Zealand Herald --- February
17, 2015 (NEW ZEALAND)
http://is.gd/9JLPPX

79. “Private School 'Failed' Our Autistic Son”
--- The family of an autistic boy says a private school failed to
provide adequate care despite being given thousands of dollars for
extra help by the ... --- Stuff.co.nz --- February 15, 2015 (NEW
ZEALAND)
http://is.gd/3tN8Gq

80. “Romania's Disabled People Abused Regularly
in State Institutions” --- An undercover investigation by Sarah
Spiller for People & Powerreveals disturbing evidence about the
treatment of disabled people in residential ... --- NEWS.com.au ---
February 15, 2015 (ROMANIA)
http://is.gd/2sYx0s

81. “Russian Police Who Filmed and Mocked
Mentally Ill Woman after She Stripped Naked and Started ...” ---
Police officers in Moscow could be fired after a leaked video appeared
to show them mocking a schizophrenic woman who had stripped ... ---
Daily Mail --- February 15, 2015 (RUSSIA)
http://is.gd/kWoPjl

82. “Many Dutch Doctors OK with Euthanasia for
Nonphysical Suffering” --- The survey focused on situations in which a
patient's suffering is not necessarily physical, such as when
emotional pain arises from psychiatric ... --- Newsweek --- February
17, 2015 (the Netherlands) http://is.gd/nedqsO

83. “Reports of Elderly and Vulnerable People
Being Abused on the Rise in North Wales” --- The Welsh Government
paper showed complaints of abuse to Conwy council's social services
department were proportionally the highest ... --- Daily Post North
Wales --- February 18, 2015 (WALES)
http://is.gd/jv8yv1